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...conversation clearly wasn’t going anywhere fast. I edged away toward another sculpture. As fate would have it, this happened to be “Head Body Limbs,” a 1967 piece by Franz Erhard Walther made up of a large rectangular piece of cream-colored canvas with its two back corners hooked into the wall and the rest of the cloth piled in an untidy heap on the floor. The label said this was another piece I could touch, and I tried to determine what I was supposed to do with it. Only this...
...Frontman Matt Pelham is also not afraid to showcase his personal side. with the love song lyrics of “The Idea of Growing Old,” is a love song written about his kids. While they aren’t as bad-ass or original as Franz Ferdinand and most of the songs follow a pretty standard formula, The Features find their own sound in rock n’ roll in a time when most bands struggle to. With Exhibit A, The Features prove it’s no coincidence that they came from that regional soul...
...conservative theologian, warned that admitting Muslim Turkey to the E.U. would threaten the Continent's "cultural richness." French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin pointedly asked in the Wall Street Journal: "Do we want the river of Islam to enter the riverbed of secularism?" Austrian E.U. Commissioner for Agriculture Franz Fischler opined that Turkey was culturally "oriental," geographically "Asian" and that accession would open "a geostrategic Pandora's box." Frits Bolkestein, the Dutch E.U. Commissioner for the Internal Market, said that admitting Turkey could mean that the historic defeat of Ottoman armies at the gates of Vienna in 1683 "would have...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum presents an exhibition of sculpture by artists who were ambivalent toward the media. “Dependable Objects” presents the works of German artists beginning in the 1960’s including works by Franz Erhard Walther, Hans Haacke, Charlotte Posenenske and Gerhard Richter. Through January 2. The Busch-Reisinger Museum...
...work a 40-hour week instead of the current 35 hours. Automaker Opel is now thinking of increasing its workweek at its factory near Essen in western Germany. Leading German politicians expressed outrage at the hard-line employer tactics. "Germany's future does not lie in low wages," fumed Franz Müntefering, chairman of the ruling Social Democratic party. Some politicians demanded that executives at companies give up part of their salary before demanding wage cuts, as happened at Lufthansa three years ago. "The managers in the higher floors should give up 10% of their own pay," said Kurt...